I understand what you are saying here JR, and I try not to be combative when I talk about AMA. I really don't care either about the $58. If I think of it as cheap ins, it is easy to justify. I realize the EC is unpaid, and they do take a lot of heat.

As I said before though, most people are there for the insurance only. That is a very small part of what we pay. To get that, we are forced to pay for things like the muncie site, museum, and everything else. Granted it isn't much for each of us, but the fact is, I would not donate a dime to something like the muncie site if I had a choice because I don't believe in it.

There were a couple companies that started competing insurance as you know. AMA is big enough and strong enough to say "you want to fly in a contest at one of the fields covered by us, you must belong". Therefor, because I want to compete, it isn't a choice. I can't belong to one of the others and be covered. They were put out of business by AMA for this reason. There were others, but simply stated, it was competition. AMA could have chosen to work with them, but they saw the writing on the wall. They would loose a huge number of members if they could get the insurance anywhere else. They would not be able to afford things like muncie.

Many of us understand that they don't have offices, and spend a lot to be on the EC. It is a thankless job.

The fact still remains, a lot are there just for the insurance, and yea, it may be a good thing for the industry to support the stuff they do, but many of us don't want to be forced to support some things we don't believe in that they do. Read that as "some things" and don't twist it to read "all things".

Remember the old saying, you can please some of the people some of the times, but not all the people most of the times.